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    ICM Ki-21 1b 1/48th 14th Hiko Sentai

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    Beautiful model from ICM. Top marks on the rigging and all those windows having the patience to cut frisket masks from the supplied stencil. 👍 I think I'd be definitely be tempted to pay for a masking set for this one. 😮

    Always tight fisted with my budget when it comes to spending on aftermarket, nevertheless I lashed out on a Montex mask set for my Tamiya 1/48 Mitsubishi G4M1 (61049 not the pre-painted canopies of 61110), but this makes the Betty transparencies seem like an easy job! 

    Gloster Whittle E28-39 Pioneer (FROG / NOVO / ARKmodels 1:72)

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    Really nice job. 👍 

    Your model took me for a walk down memory lane reminding me of how back in the late 1960s I used to love Frog kits when I could get them as they did less popular, less glamorous and thus lesser known subjects ignored by the ubiquitious Airfix in their hanger bags. e.g. Percival Proctor IV, Miles Master III, Magister I, Hotspur II glider to name a few I had and recall, and this.

    NB. In Australia, Frog kits were poorly and sporadically distributed throughout the 1960s, and thus very difficult to source as a child limited to localised outlets in suburbia such as hobby shops. 😢

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    Meng 1:48 Me 410 B-2/U2/R4

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    Nice result all things considered.

    TBH, I built their B-2/U4 variant, and was unimpressed with MENG from that experience. Your comments re the transparencies are spot on. It started off badly when I received a box absent decals and had to go to the reseller to sort the problem. Especially for the price, I expected better than to have to buy aftermarket too to fix issues like the oil cooler intake, propeller blade and spinner shapes. Do better MENG were my thoughts. Haven't bought a MENG aircraft kit again since, although - couldn't resist, I do have their 1/35 A7V in my stash due to it being the only show in town in scale kudos to them.

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    The last contingent ‒ Kawasaki Go shiki sentoki

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    A truly impressive Ki-100-1b from the Otaki original and Arii reissue, as is your presentational photography of it. Quite made my morning to view it. 👍

    I've had quite a few Otaki and Arii 1/48 in my time, but no longer have the patience or desire to mod anything, preferring pretty much OOTB builds. If I want detail in anything then it's Eduard Profipack, Limited Edition or similar. My in home audience, many of whom are retired military and/or airline pilots who have been WWII aircraft enthusiasts and kit builders at least in their childhood, by and large couldn't tell the difference anyway. If it resembles the type as well as those Otaki kits of their era do, it is. That said, I have the 1/48 initial Ki-100-1a from Hasegawa here in my stash awaiting build. Thanks for your inspiration and the motivation.

     

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    FW 190 A-8 3/JG1 Eduard 1/48+ 2 outside new pics.

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    Sentence structure correction

    16 hours ago, Zigomar said:

    Sincerly it is a difficult question to answer properly. But let's see the facts which are helping me to go fast; I am retired, single, awful weather and a derelectic outside world. I spend probably two hours in the morning and sometimes three in the evening, so roughly it takes me a week to do such a model. In between I practise my guitar picking, cook myself Thaï dishes, and that's all. Please note that this is for a good average kit It might take longer with some models.


    Thanks mate. I'm still amazed. ~35 man hours/7 day week if averaging that every day, give or take model dependent as you said. Still a sterling effort. I tick many of those boxes sans the awful weather and single part. I spend far too much time on other interests to be so productive, guitar in particular. Exercise (cycling) consumes a fair chunk, as that time soak the PC without appying self discipline. Involuntarily I also regularly lose a considerable chunk of the afternoon as downtime due a necessary nap/non-functioning rest due a health related extreme fatigue issue.

    Appreciate and enjoying your current focus subject matter. Die Reichsverteidigung is one of my two areas of particular interest in history and aircraft modelling. e.g. Project "Die Reichsverteidigung JV 44, Heinz Bär"

    Hasegawa 1:72 Mitsubishi G3M2 Nell, Genzan Air Group, 1941

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    15 hours ago, Nanond said:

    If we were going to see a 1:48 Nell within the next 10 years, I'd put my bet on it coming from ICM. If their current twin-engined WWii bombers sell well, and with the Ki21 just around the corner, chances are it will come around to a 1:48 Nell. Keep our fingers crossed.

    Nanond

    Really? ICM have a 1/48 "Sally" in the pipeline? That's great news to my ears. With all that's going on over there, any actual probable release date announced? That being the case, if it sells well we may see it followed up by the obvious candidate. 

    Historically, Tamiya and Hasegawa hold the historical precedent for providing Japanese WWII types. Prior to the 1970s when Tamiya started putting out a bevy of Japanese WWII single seaters in 1/48, even in 1/72 with the exception of the ubiquitous "Zero" and occasional "Tony" -although Kudos to Airfix they did do a "Dinah II" and "Val" in Series 2, Japanese, like Soviet types, were largely ignored, notably in 1/48. For an aeon what was available in 1/48 that genre was from Tamiya, Hasegawa, and lesser known or exported Otaki, and later Fine Molds. But in 1/48, TMK all we have still available in Japanese twins even in 2023 1/48 are the 1996 "Betty" , x2 1996/1997 "Dinah" III & III Kai variants, & 2001/2002/2008 x3 early, late and NF Kou variant Irvings from Tamiya, and the various sub variants of the "Nick" from Hasegaw?

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    Hasegawa 1:72 Mitsubishi G3M2 Nell, Genzan Air Group, 1941

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    Marginally off topic. I do wish Tamiya or Hasegawa would release a 1/48 version of the "Nell" as Tamiya did with their beautiful "Betty" of the 1990s. The G3M is such a beautiful looking aircraft, contextually and historically important. Little chance Eduard or others will, as save the ubiquitious 'Zero' it's common knowledge Japanese aircraft are like Soviet era WWII armour and aircraft when it comes to relative sales against the German cats and ubiquitious Sherman or the plethora of Spitfires, Mustangs, Corsairs, Hellcats and Thunderbolts ad nauseam. 

    If ever, with the current recession and forseeable impact over the next decade, I doubt I'll see a sales risk venture like that even from the likes of Tamiya or Hasegawa in my remaining lifetime. 😢

     

    Aware of the couple of short run kits, but no disrespect intended to those who are, I'm not that masochistic.

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